On the first DVD in this series, Christian introduces the fundamental techniques he uses to create digital concept paintings and matte paintings. In three exercises based loosely on digital photographs, he introduces the basic principals of digital painting in Adobe Photoshop . The first exercise demonstrates and illustrates three types of perspectives. The second exercise introduces painting with shape, showing different ways to create selections. In the last exercise, Christian demonstrates perspective and shape techniques, showing how to import light layers, and create separate foreground, midground and background elements. The DVD includes the photographic plates and additional bonus exercises.

In this tutorial we will learn the necessary techniques involved in creating a matte painting of an architectural visualization image. We will learn some insider tips and tricks to execute faster with better results, as well as how to rely less on your render and more on post production.

A songwriter, a Hip Hop artist, a DJ, a studio and only one day to produce song! Possible? Well find out! The production team at Dubway Studios are back producing Hired Gun and DJ Boo in another, high-pressure, real-world SongCraft Docutorial.Ben Arthur, our intrepid songwriter and musical adventurer is back and in this episode hes straddling his acoustic comfort zone by collaborating with New York-based Hip Hop poet Hired Gun and expert Scratch artist DJ Boo.

Want to make creatures that not only look great, but also function properly in a production environment? Learn how with this one of a kind creature workshop! Using his background in animation and unparallelled creature design skills, Peter Konig will show you how to develop fantastic creature designs while keeping an eye on their movement and functionality. Follow along as Peter takes you step by step through the design process in just six power-packed modules!

Prepare to look at digital art in a whole new light by learning from award-winning digital artist Bobby Chiu! Over nine lessons, Bobby will teach you his philosophies and techniques for producing digital paintings and conceptual art by applying traditional art skills in the virtual environment of Adobe Photoshop. Be prepared to immerse yourself in practical assignments that will build your digital painting skills from the ground up. (Previous familiarity with Adobe Photoshop would be helpful but not necessary.)

Prepare to look at digital art in a whole new light by learning from award-winning digital artist Bobby Chiu! Over nine lessons, Bobby will teach you his philosophies and techniques for producing digital paintings and conceptual art by applying traditional art skills in the virtual environment of Adobe Photoshop. Be prepared to immerse yourself in practical assignments that will build your digital painting skills from the ground up. (Previous familiarity with Adobe Photoshop would be helpful but not necessary.)

This January, join Jasmine Star for a different type of workshop. It's not just a couple days -- this is a three month course. We'll be meeting once a month for three months, on January 9, February 13, and March 6. Over that time, we'll turn businesses inside out, transform, and restart for the new year. You'll rework your online presence, find ways to improve your photography skills, and learn how to successfully run a branded photography studio.

Learning to edit video professionally or to cut your own projects together? Get to know Sony Vegas Pro. In these tutorials, film and television industry veteran Steve Grisetti walks you through the entire Vegas workflow. Learn to import media from a variety of locations; edit clips in the Timeline; edit and enhance audio, including voice-over narration; and add effects to enhance the color, mood, and drama of your movie. You'll also find out how to add titles, apply transitions between scenes, chroma key, add animations such as pans and scrolls, and crop footage for maximum impact.

A time-lapse video essentially compresses time into a smaller space, creating some entertaining and evocative results. In this workshop author and expert Tim Grey explores the tools, techniques, and concepts involved in creating great time-lapse videos from still captures. You’ll learn how to choose the right equipment, get the right settings for your camera, and compose shots in a way that will be easy to work with later. Then you’ll follow Tim through a series of time-lapse projects where he photographs both fast-moving and slow-moving subjects, as well as one where the camera itself is moving.

From Original Idea to Final ImageIn this innovative workshop, Tim Grey explores both the theory and the practice of creating top-quality photographic images. Through a combination of live video and studio work, you?ll accompany Tim through every step in a series of photo projects - from choosing the subject and the equipment, to capturing the images, to selecting the best images and optimizing them in Photoshop. Along the way you?ll gain a unique insight into how a professional photographer?s thought process works and learn new ways to think about your own approach to photography.

Training conducted in Photoshop, with complete references to The Gimp. Most of the training is purely generic, and the techniques portrayed can be adopted to any 2D software with layer capability. Description:

Lightroom 5. Master the tools needed to enhance, refine and even retouch your images using quick and easy non-destructive image adjustments From glamour skin softening, to eye and teeth enhancing, to skin color unifying and special effects like luscious high key black whites, selective hand tinting, cross-processing and even changing depth of field, there are incredibly powerful features in Lightroom that allow a huge amount of the polishing of your photographs to be done right there, without ever having to go into Photoshop